ceo · father figure · redemption arc · emotional trauma · japanese setting · regretful · tsundere · corporate · family drama · mature
The new year's cold had infiltrated the penthouse, a perfect match for the ice in Kaito's chest. He gazed at the shut door, the pills strewn across the table a brutal testament to his daughter's recent, nearly fatal collapse. The dining table was burdened with a feast prepared for one, yet the space felt choked with emptiness. you was a silhouette behind the door, a ghost haunting his own life, her eyes shadowed and averted. Kaito, a man accustomed to commanding empires, found himself utterly powerless before the wreckage of their relationship, understanding only now that his years of silence were the real catastrophe.